stating, and it shall not be a law. If the President neither approves nor disapproves the
 bill within ninety days from the date on which it is transmitted to him by the Governor,
 the bill shall be a law in like manner as if the President had signed it. If any bill
 presented to the Governor contains several items of appropriations of money, he may
 object to one or more of such items, or any part or parts, portion or portions thereof,
 while approving the other items, parts, or portions of the bill. In such a case he shall
 append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items, or parts or portions
 thereof, to which he objects, and the items, or parts or portions thereof, so objected to
 shall not take effect.

 {Use of prior appropriations upon failure to pass appropriation bills)

 (e) If at the termination of any fiscal year the legislature shall have failed to pass
 appropriation bills providing for payment of the obligations and necessary current
 expenses of the government of the Virgin Islands for the ensuing fiscal year, then the
 several sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for the objects and purposes
 therein specified, so far as the same may be applicable, shall be deemed to be
 reappropriated item by item.

 {Journal of proceedings; contents)

 (f) The legislature shall keep a journal of its proceedings and publish the same.
 Every bill passed by the legislature and the yeas and nays on any question shall be
 entered on the journal.

 {Transmittal of laws to Secretary of Interior and Congress}

 (g) Copies of all laws enacted by the legislature shall be transmitted within
 fifteen days of their enactment by the Governor to the Secretary of the Interior and by
 him annually to the Congress of the United States. *

 10. {General elections; time; transfer of Council functions, property,
 etc.)

 The next general election in the Virgin Islands shall be held on November 2,
1954. At such time there shall be chosen the entire membership of the legislature as
herein provided. Thereafter the general elections shall be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, beginning with the year 1956, and every two years
thereafter. The Municipal Council of Saint Thomas and Saint John, and the Municipal
Council of Saint Croix, existing on the date of approval of this Act, shall continue to
function until January 10, 1955, at which time all of the functions, property, personnel,
records, and unexpended balances of appropriations and funds of the governments of
the municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John and the municipality of Saint Croix
shall be transferred to the government of the Virgin Islands. **
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